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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Betelgeuse on December 14, 2012, 02:19:29 PM
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I have recently been looking into acquiring a good condition Majesty (My Majesty is horribly discolored with mane and tail trim and hard as a rock) and realized that most images I've seen of her are in fairly bad condition. I'm wondering is she more prone to cancer/browning than other ponies? Also, just how rare is Majesty in a good condition? It's hard to obtain the Dream Castle but I have several baits of her. Was a mail order of her ever released?
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From what I've seen, very rare. The ones that I have seen either had bad symbols or brown head. I've never seen a near-perfect one.
As for mail order, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not the most knowledgeable about G1's anyway. I'll leave that one for someone else.
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From what I've seen, very rare. The ones that I have seen either had bad symbols or brown head. I've never seen a near-perfect one.
As for mail order, I'm not aware of any, but I'm not the most knowledgeable about G1's anyway. I'll leave that one for someone else.
Oh dear... I figured that's how it was. Yeah. The browning is very noticeable.
Well, there is a mail order Spike, I always thought that he came with Majesty in the mail order.
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I thought there was a m/o version but mylittlewiki doesn't list one...
I found another issue with her is her pose, the glory-pose tends to warm and she doesn't stand well. I was lucky enough to find one in good shape that stands up. She didn't cost much 5-6 years ago when I got her so I assumed she was common... perhaps I got lucky.
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There is a mail-order version of her. I own her but I think she's a little harder to find. She also doesn't have the receding hairline that the Dream Castle Majesties suffer from. :)
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I got mine in pretty much perfect condition years ago. Maybe she was indeed more common to come across years ago.
Right now I got a double from a lot, but aside from some minor issues she looks very nice. Very white, no discolouring or cancer.
So from my experience, no. She's not that hard to find in ok-good condition. But maybe I've just been lucky.
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Are you sure she has a mane and tail trim? Most playset Majesties have uneven, choppy hair.
Yeah, it's almost impossible to find one in perfect condition.
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Are you sure she has a mane and tail trim? Most playset Majesties have uneven, choppy hair.
Yeah, it's almost impossible to find one in perfect condition.
It's a Mohawk. So yes. XD I'm absolutely sure.
:yikes: I thought so.
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I've never ran across a nice Majesty. They've always been plagued with bad hair for some reason, and the colors were always off. I bet she's pretty in mint condition.
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I was SUPER lucky to come across a MINTY Majesty about a year or so ago through a seller here on the Arena. All other ones I've looked at have either been discolored, or their manes have had the WORST mane cuts.
I did acquire another one recently from a friend who found a bag of her daughters old G1's, fakies, some Pixietails, Silkypup, Cloe ( Fashion Star Filly ), and Arrow from She-ra. Majesty was in it, but it looks like she got a bad trim and has a smudge on her muzzle that I can't get rid of by my usual cleaning methods. Her mane and tail are silky, but it's that poor, unstyled, but badly trimmed mane of hers.
I almost want to rehair her, like I did with my TE Speedy ( oooh, poor girl had a gummed up tattered pony fro. ;~; ). May really consider it if I decide to sell her, but I have to get rid of that smudge without attempting a sun fade, which can take a looooooooooooooong time to do.
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I know I sure have a hard time finding her in good shape. The one I have in my collection is icky. She was my FIRST pony I ever found at a flea market when I started collecting as a child. I fell in love with her and carried her everywhere with me. Even back then, fifteen years ago, she was in dingy shape.
I'd LOVE to have a minty, bright white one. Her design is simple but gorgeous.
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really - I've never run across a bad one - well except maybe that one with the symbols worn off - but never discolored.
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The best ones I've seen have been always a shade off of true white... I've seen some customs who are just gorgeous... and I've seen that one very rare majesty MIP who was stark white, but normally they seem to have had a lot of love and a lot of play time and gotten very dingy!
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Lol...the mysterious mystery white Majesty...does she exist? Nope :P
I have seen pictures of gorgeous minty ones and thanks to a lovely swap box earlier in the year I do have a very very nice one now but every single one I see is anything from creamy yellow to a shade or two removed from white. It may be barely perceptible but the off white-ness is just there...I am thinking originally she probably was not a clear and shining brilliant pure white; white yes but not brilliant white.
And yes there is a mail order version - she was offered mail order along with a selection of the other playset ponies.
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its even hard to find them in this condition.
here is my playset magesty:
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here is my mail order:
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I agree with Majesty never being a pure white.
I have three, and even if they are white, compared to a true white (Glory, Magic Hat, for example), the color seems creamy.
If you don't compare it to other white ponies, it's not noticeable, bu next to one, it really shouts not white.
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Last year a bought a lot from a local seller. A Dream Castle and some other playsets with a bunch of ponies in it. All the ponies were in a great shape (minus the tangled hair) but Majesty was just awful! Her symbols are perfect! Very blue, no rubbing, and her hair is silky and uncut, but her body is very off white and plagued with cancer! This just shows me that she is very prone to degradation no matter what someone does with her :( poor girl.
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Yikes... such a shame that a pony I want more than many others has to be in such bad condition all the time.
Does anyone know if the mail order version keeps her white body better than the Dream Castle playset version?
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I have only seen one in my collecting time that did not have anything wrong with it.
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I have only seen one in my collecting time that did not have anything wrong with it.
Let me post a pic of my MO vs normal release.
When I find my camera...
Not having mine at hand (hello, need a lightbulb...), I think the MO is a little more white than my normal releases.
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I've never owned a regular issue Majesty that's stark white, but have a few that are unyellowed without glitter rust. They're a touch on the creamy white side in NM condition. :) Oh, The payset ponies could have nicer hair, or strange pitch straight hair that's jagged at the ends... Looks as though when I choose which of my Majesty ponies to keep it shouldn't be difficult to sell what's left! I didn't realize she's normally in such poor condition!
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Oddly enough I've never had any trouble finding nice Majesties. I'm not sure she was "stark white" to start off with, but both of mine seem comparable to Gusty, Surprise, other early white ponies.
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The one I have doesn't have any issues. She's pretty darn minty. I've seen some pretty nice Majestys online, too. She seems to be just as easy/difficult to find minty compared to other ponies though. But I can't find a nice so soft for the life of me, so I guess it's relative. XD :P
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Agreed with StarDragon :)
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Yikes... such a shame that a pony I want more than many others has to be in such bad condition all the time.
Does anyone know if the mail order version keeps her white body better than the Dream Castle playset version?
No...no difference that I have noticed over the years to be honest but then again any difference could be explained by the fact the MO is a few years newer in manufacture than the playset versions I guess.
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How do you tell the difference between MO majesty and normal release ^.^
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MO Majesty tends to be whiter...
The difference as explained before is the hairline...
close to horn=MO; eyes really are purple, but fade to blue over time.
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Hmm, i have to dig my Majesty and see what condition she is in.
I do remember she was in a nice condition when i bought her, but thats over ten years ago.. :biggrin:
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MO Majesty tends to be whiter...
The difference as explained before is the hairline...
close to horn=MO; eyes really are purple, but fade to blue over time.
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thanks for this :) mine looks like the MO one ;)
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Mine is very white, I say, and in very good condition
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I had two in my collection and they were bordering on baity (on one her neckplug broke O.o)
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I've had 5 or 6 of her over time. None really super white except for the MO version. I restored a playset one and she's quite white now... :o)
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Unfortunately I don't believe that the hair line thing is an accurate description between MO and Playset Majesty - its just been an ongoing but never proven speculation. In addition I have seen MIP MO and MIP Playsey Majestys both with their hair line almost to the horn.
Its more likely that the hairline issue is simply a variation in the regular store bought playsets - the Dream Castle was released a lot and over multiple years and different countries. A slight change in manufacture is not surprising over all those hundreds of thousands [probably] of ponies.
In addition think about how many of us claim to have the "MO hair to the horn" Majesty - that is too many in the scheme of things. MO Majesty could only be purchased at the same time and in the same pack as all the other playset MO ponies - yet how few MO Pink Sprikles and no freckle Tiddly Winks are in peoples collections? Far too few in comparison to how many Majestys there supposedly is.
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If she's anything like the MO Rice Krispies baby, then maybe there could be TONS of her...
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There are tons of the MO Rice Crispies Baby because of how she was distributed - you only needed the cereal proofs of purchase and (I believe?) a few dollars postage. The MO playset ponies were distributed via insert flyer, and required money, pony points, and postage. There were also plenty of other ponies on offer, so even if every child ordered a MO pony, they wouldn't necessarily all get the same one.
hathorcat's reasoning is sound, there shouldn't be significantly more MO Majesty's than any of the others from the same set.
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Hmm, I have a Majesty I've been meaning to put up for sale. I think she's in pretty good shape, too... I'll check tomorrow (it's 1:30 AM here) and maybe upload a pic if she actually is okay.
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Okay, here she is:
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She's pretty white, although it is a creamy white and not a stark one. Her head is slightly more yellowed and would benefit from some peroxide or sunning. She still has purple eyes! Other than that, all she needs is a good hairstyling.
My favourite part of her is the symbols. They are near-perfect and have no glitter loss. The only flaw is one small factory paint smear on each side.
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Ah, i found a pic. Poor Majesty, i forgot she had marks when i got her. :P
I cant really say if shes a mail order or not. I should sunbath her in the summer, so the marks will go away.
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I have both the playset and MO version, the playset versions I have only found creamy white, or majorly mismatched heads, the MO versions I have had were always whiter so seems to not degrade as badly as the playset version :)
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Interesting, I wonder if the ones with the more mane that folks call mail order are in fact just a later issue of her where they had changed the plastic base so she stays whiter? Seems to be way too many of them around for them all to be mail order.
Thoth and I have not had much luck getting a good one, so far the two or three we have found have all had mis-matched heads and bodies.
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Wich is rarer, MO majesty or playset majesty? :blink:
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MO Majesty - she was only released within leaflets sent to fan club members and if I remember rightly off the top of my head only turned up in 2 [or maybe 3] leaflets at the very most. She should be as rare as the other MO ponies who were in the same set [Pink Sprinkles, etc who is very hard to find].
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My Majesty's in decent condition, I'm not sure if she's MO or not:
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Sunbathing a white pony can lead to sunburn (brown splotches). I prefer white ponies to soak in peroxide for a few months.
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I am not sure wether my majesty is MO or not.
Her hair is very near to the horn but her eyes are very purple
She has a glitter cutie mark. :biggrin:
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Mine had a mismatch. I sunfaded part of her, I want to say the head. Matches nicely now.
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A lot of the ones I've come across have a whiter body and darker head. :P